Template:Did you know nominations/James William Lair


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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 18:35, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

James William Lair

 * ... that James William Lair recruited Vang Pao, and they founded a covert 30,000 man guerrilla army?
 * Reviewed: Iron Foot Jack
 * Comment: A natural nomination for Veterans Day/Armistice Day, November 11th. Plenty long enough, fully cited. Lair reminds me so much of Lawrence of Arabia&mdash;except Lair's espionage career lasted a lot longer and raised a larger guerrilla force. Then too, Lair trained Thai policemen into Special Forces. And he began the Secret War in Laos. And so much more.

2x expanded and sourced (BLP) by Georgejdorner (talk). Self nominated at 03:50, 3 October 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol voting keep.svg Long enough after 5x expansion, new enough, AGF on sources, hook cited, everything looks fine to me.  Zappa  24  Mati   01:13, 4 November 2014 (UTC)